News Briefs
THE Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) may risk losing city government support if Camp Crame doesn’t grant Mayor Michael Rama’s request to choose his own city police director.
THE Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) may risk losing city government support if Camp Crame doesn’t grant Mayor Michael Rama’s request to choose his own city police director.
City hall employee reinstated THE Court of Appeals (CA) ordered the reinstatement of a Cebu City Hall employee who was terminated in 2003 for going absent without leave. Associate Justice Gabriel Ingles also ordered the city government to pay back wages and benefits to Ma. Josefa Abella from the time she was terminated on Sept. [...]
The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) has yet to make up its mind whether or not it would join the Liberal Party-led majority coalition in the 16th Congress.
The House of Representatives may have worked well with the Senate under the leadership of now resigned Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile but with the prospect of Liberal Party (LP) stalwarts controlling both chambers of the 16th Congress, House majority leader Neptali Gonzales sees even easier approval of key bills.
Not all members of the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) are expected to join the minority in the House of Representatives in the next Congress, even if the party’s new president is eyeing the minority leadership.
Senator Franklin Drilon expressed disbelief that President Benigno Aquino III’s popular sister, Kris, would support another candidate for Senate president.
Although he has insisted the Senate presidency was “not in the bag,” Sen. Franklin Drilon has begun listing the “difficult items” the new batch of senators must prioritize before they become distracted by the 2016 elections.
Support for Liberal Party (LP) member Sen. Franklin Drilon’s bid for the Senate presidency is “firming up” in the ranks of the Nacionalista Party, according to the NP’s erstwhile presumptive aspirant for the Senate leadership.
VIRAC, Catanduanes—Rep. Cesar Sarmiento of the Liberal Party (LP) scored a first in the history of the lone district of Catanduanes when he was reelected with 101,156 votes to topple opponents Leandro Verceles (Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino) and Resty de Quiros (Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino, or PMP). Sarmiento, who is the LP provincial chair, [...]
After a two-year on-the-job training, performing a job that he did not aspire for in 2010, Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo obtained an overwhelming mandate in last Monday’s elections.
The Liberal Party’s quest to become the ruling party for the 2016 presidential election is going to be a much longer and harder journey, as far as central and northern Luzon are concerned.
The Liberal Party’s endeavor to become the ruling party for the 2016 presidential elections is going to be a much longer and harder journey, as far as Central and Northern Luzon are concerned.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc on May 14 ruled with finality to disqualify Liberal Party candidate for legislator Regina Ongsiako Reyes but this did not stop local election officials from proceeding with a controversial proclamation of Reyes and two other LP candidates even if canvassing is not over yet.
